I have just begun looking at MHonArc as a possible way to provide a
'mail server / client / platform' independent way to browse the email
of departed employees.
As employees leave the company, we currently put their message store on
one or more CDs. I would prefer to place an HTML structured /
browseable copy on the CDs.
I installed mhonarc and am having difficutly getting the marilarchive
built. It seems that the program is not parsing the messages properly
and I'm not sure what I need to do to adjust the program. I am also
not sure that I am dealing with nested folders properly.
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The first thing I tried:
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#mhonarc /path/to/users/maildirectory
This is MHonArc v2.6.6, Perl 5.006 darwin
Converting messages to .
Reading /path/to/users/maildirectory .
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<2300(_dot_)1060109180(_dot_)0(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<2300(_dot_)1060109180(_dot_)1(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<2300(_dot_)1060109180(_dot_)2(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
Writing mail ...
Writing ./maillist.html ...
Writing ./threads.html ...
Writing database ...
3 new messages
3 total messages
---I think the 3 files that it errored on were the iPlanet indes files.
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The second attempt
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#mhonarc -mhpattern "^[^.]" /path/to/users/maildirectory
This is MHonArc v2.6.6, Perl 5.006 darwin
Converting messages to .
Reading /path/to/users/maildirectory .
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<2288(_dot_)1060108585(_dot_)0(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<2288(_dot_)1060108585(_dot_)1(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
.
Warning: Could not parse date for message
Message-Id:
<2288(_dot_)1060108585(_dot_)2(_at_)NO-ID-FOUND(_dot_)mhonarc(_dot_)org>
....
Error repeated many times.
It created 22 files, there are 100s.
The message server is iPlanet Message Server 5.0 and the mail is stored
as individual mail files in a hashed directory structure. I'll give
some examples of the data:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is an example of a users directory structure:
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drwxrwxrwx 53 kerns staff 1802 Apr 4 2002 48
drwxrwxrwx 102 kerns staff 3468 Apr 4 2002 49
drwxrwxrwx 99 kerns staff 3366 Apr 4 2002 50
drwxrwxrwx 7 kerns staff 238 Apr 4 2002 =+Folder+One
drwxrwxrwx 5 kerns staff 170 Apr 4 2002 =+Folder+Two
drwxrwxrwx 5 kerns staff 170 Apr 4 2002 =+Folder+Three
drwxrwxrwx 5 kerns staff 170 Apr 4 2002 =+Drafts
drwxrwxrwx 4 kerns staff 136 Apr 4 2002 =+Sent
drwxrwxrwx 4 kerns staff 136 Apr 4 2002 =+Trash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 507044 Mar 7 2002 store.idx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 418 Jun 28 2001 store.sub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 44 Aug 30 2001 store.usr
Inside each named folder are more hashed directories like the first 3
above, and messages inside each.
Messages list like this:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 2137 Feb 15 2002 5082.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 2779 Feb 19 2002 5083.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 14270 Feb 19 2002 5084.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 557036 Feb 21 2002 5085.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 844854 Feb 21 2002 5086.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 14256 Feb 22 2002 5087.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 12846 Feb 25 2002 5088.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 2207 Feb 25 2002 5089.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 2424 Feb 27 2002 5090.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 2235 Feb 27 2002 5091.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 10302 Feb 28 2002 5092.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 5446 Mar 5 2002 5093.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 77288 Mar 5 2002 5094.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 2012 Mar 6 2002 5095.msg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kerns staff 5888 Mar 7 2002 5096.msg
------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is an example of a message header:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Return-path: <D-5-728211-4517605-2-4066-US1-6D17F9A8(_at_)domain(_dot_)com>
Received: from mailhost.domain.com
(mailhost.domain.com [205.183.255.164])
by ossipee.curis.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec
14
2000)) with ESMTP id <0GSL00M09YJLXW(_at_)ossipee(_dot_)curis(_dot_)com> for
user(_at_)ims-ms-daemon
(ORCPT user(_at_)curis(_dot_)com); Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:50:13 -0500 (EST)
Content-return: prohibited
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:49:54 -0500
From: Sender Name <sender(_at_)domain(_dot_)com>
Subject: Enter the Grand Giveaway
To: user(_at_)curis(_dot_)com
Message-id: <I-1-728211-4517605-2-4066-US1-D6873BA4(_at_)domain(_dot_)com>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
Boundary=MEboundary-4517605-7-1015512417
--MEboundary-4517605-7-1015512417
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
------------------------------------------------------------------
There is a lot of info in this message. Sorry. I was trying to give a
complete picture.
Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter Kerns
kerns(_at_)curis(_dot_)com
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